Posted
by
timothy
on Thursday April 08, 2010 @09:41PM
from the cloudy-today dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Having recently acquired an iPod Touch, DeviceGuru blogger Rick Lehrbaum soon found himself with an 80GB iPod paperweight knocking around and collecting dust. Then it hit him: why not use a Pogoplug as an iPod server, effectively filling his nifty new iPod Touch with 80GB of music whenever he has WiFi access? The how-to article at DeviceGuru.com explains how a Pogoplug and iPod Touch combined with free web services at pogoplug.com combine to form the 'PogoPod System.' It also introduces the Pogoplug's new UPnP support, and briefly reviews a couple of UPnP media-rendering iPhone and iPod Touch apps."

The very day that Apple announces that only their newest phones will support multitasking why here we have on/. an article pimping how having an otherwise useless iDevice is a good thing. I guess we know what folks are supposed to do with their old iPhones now.

The guy's just plugging an external hard drive in to a minimalist Linux system (the early review versions are clearly SheevaPlug units with a sticker attached and some custom software) and accessing it from an iPod Touch. Whoop-dee-fucking-doo.

The post title implies something actually interesting like a way to hack more than the X GB of storage space Apple currently offers on to the iPod Touch platform, not "here's how to access a UPnP share from a WiFi connected handheld.

Or you could just buy a Sheevaplug [openplug.org] and save yourself the monthly fee for using the crap being pedaled in this "hack". Or if you really wanted to be a cheapskate just pick up a SFF PC for a little of nothing, since all it is gonna do is serve files a 733MHz will do just fine, slap Linux and a decent sized HDD in and you're good to go.

Seriously, does nobody read these things before they get posted anymore? I was hopped up expecting some cool hack, not some cheap ass ad for an overpriced POS. Note-plugging something into a USB port is NOT a hack! Hell if we are gonna start calling crap like this "DIY" then my 67 year old dad with his 14 USB ports must be like the king of the DIY hackers! Now if I can just teach him how to actually do two things on a PC at once he'll rule the world! Muh ha ha ha ha!